MANSFIELD, PA— Five faculty and a student from the Mansfield University Department of
English and Modern Languages participated in the English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) conference on October 9-10 at Slippery Rock University.
Andrea Harris delivered her paper, “Experience and Identity in the Literature Classroom: What Do ‘You’ and ‘I’ Have to Do with It.”
Lynn Pifer delivered her paper, “‘Making me true to myself’: Identity Politics and the Quest for Freedom in James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.”
Lilace Guignard read “Poems from Fracktown,”
Louise Sullivan-Blum and Jimmy Guignard were featured in Author Showcase panels, Sullivan-Blum reading “Faith on the Front Lines,” and Guignard reading selections from his new book, Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone.
Senior English major Miranda Peery delivered her paper, “Selective Blindness: Bebe Moore Campbell’s Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine and the Undermining of the Civil Rights Movement”
Peery was honored as Mansfield’s Outstanding English Major at the EAPSU Outstanding English Major luncheon.
EAPSU also honored Jimmy Guignard with the Distinguished Service Award, which goes to the English faculty member in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) system who has demonstrated outstanding service to the organization, department, and field.
Guignard chairs Mansfield’s English and Modern Languages Department, which will host the EAPSU Undergraduate Conference on March 31-April 1, 2016.
His book, Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone: Teaching, Writing, and Living above the Marcellus Shale, was published in September.
To learn more about studying English at Mansfield, go to mansfield.edu/english